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Re: tecate post# 37462

Tuesday, 06/08/2004 8:41:52 AM

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:41:52 AM

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This guy is a moron.


But put aside the marketing bluster about chips like AMD's Athlon64


Yeah, the airwaves are just flooded with ads for Athlon 64
systems these days. Almost as much as the "Focus and a Dell"
commercials.


You might think that multitasking with other, similarly oversized applications would cause ever-increasing memory pressure, to the point where one does become concerned about address space usage. But that’s not the case. Windows, Unix, and other modern operating systems use a technique called virtual memory to give each program its own isolated memory map. On a 32-bit computer this means that every running program gets its own 4 gigabytes of virtual memory to play around with. So while a single instance of a running program can’t access more than 4 gigabytes, a 32-bit machine running Windows XP with 10 or 20 gigabytes of memory would have no trouble sharing that memory between a bloated browser, a bloated copy of Word 2003, and a bloated copy of Access.


This guy should take a course in operating systems. I don't
know if he has the math background for it though.
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